The OpenAI farce has moved at such speed in the past week that it is easy to forget that nobody has yet said in clear terms why Sam Altman – the returning chief executive and all-round genius, according to his vocal fanclub – was fired in the first place. Sinc... More »
Peaks are lonely places. They don’t accommodate crowds. And Joe Biden, at the pinnacle of American politics, is to some degree isolated, as all presidents wind up being. Not many people have real, meaningful access to him. Not many voices break through.But he’... More »
One of the nice things about OpenAI is that it was built on distrust. It began as a nonprofit research lab because its founders didn’t think artificial intelligence should be pioneered by commercial firms, which are driven overwhelmingly by the profit motive.A... More »
OpenAI was reportedly working on an advanced system before Sam Altman’s sacking that was so powerful it caused safety concerns among staff at the company.The artificial intelligence model triggered such alarm with some OpenAI researchers that they wrote to the... More »